Four college-age-looking kids arrived at this tag location just moments after us. They were very patient and pleasant waiting for us to take our shots before they added their empty beer bottles. Seems this is a good spot for under age drinking.

So you can see him from the front… well sort of the front. That was as far around the front as I could go. And yeah, it was steep and high above Skunk Hollow. Climbing around there was exhilarating, actually.

Ah, that actually helps me figure out where to look. Now, if I could only drag myself out of bed at 4:30 a.m. to ride from the North Hills to that area with enough time to get my butt back downtown for work at 8am, I might have a shot at it. All assuming, of course, that I know where to go, which I still don’t, really.

Well, not quite.
551 is the elephant, which is still on the Penn Ave side of the development (and is now facing away from the factory building). The giraffe used to be in front, but now it’s next to the cow/bull/? thing in the back. Someone must have had it in for the long neck…

Fun Fact: Nabisco Animal Crackers never included a giraffe, I think for obvious reasons.

I’m waiting to see a trombone next to the menagerie. Why a trombone? In Meredith Wilson’s musical “The Music Man”, there’s a scene early in the show citing the demise of traveling salesmen (the players in that scene) as deriving from the Uneeda Biscuit, hence making the cracker barrel obsolete. Uneeda Biscuits were made in what became the old Nabisco (National Biscuit Company) factory. Later in the play, Professor Harold Hill goes on to sell a lot of brass musical instruments and sing the song “76 Trombones”.

Not the Uneeda/Nabisco Factory connection; neat! But it’s Willson, two L’s.

Pittsburgh Filmmakers has an exhibit of photographs of faded building signs all over town in their Melwood gallery. One of them advertises Uneeda Biscuits. Some of the signs pictured there have been tags.

Jon, I just moved the Bakery Square tag on the map to near its eastern corner. If that’s still not right, please feel free to move it. (Log in to Google, go here, click page 4 at the bottom of the scrolling list, click Edit, drag the marker, click Save then Done.)